Breakthrough

[prosodic]

I finally made tasty pork chops tonight for the first time EVER.

I've made fantastic pork roast, tasty and succulent pork tenderloin...and I seem to do fine with all other pork products. But pork chops have always stumped me. No matter how much I follow a recipe, they always come out dry and stringy (this even happened in the crockpot once...how bad is that that pork chops came out dry IN A CROCKPOT?).

But tonight...yum! I had boneless loin chops, which I breaded with Italian-seasoned bread crumbs and parmesan cheese and then cooked on a skillet. I think they were done in less than 10 minutes and I served them with butter & herb mashed potatoes and peas. So good! Lance still smothered his in Heinz 57, however. I didn't think it needed anything. But old habits die hard, I guess.

I think I'll be headed off to bed here shortly. Every muscle in my body aches right now. I took an hour nap earlier...Lance woke me up when he came home from work. This temp job is leaving me exhausted and sore everyday. And I have paper cuts all over my hands too, which is charming.

When the temp agency called me earlier to ask me how the job was going, I replied, "it's a job." No other comment. I think that gets the point across.

I have a longer post that I've been wanting to write, but I've been too tired. Emotionally and physically.

Comments

[katzies.livejournal.com]

I'm having a hard time with pork too. Unless I beat the crap out of it and it's really thin it's usually a little bit too dry.